October 18, 2012
When you love someone, you do not love them all the time, in exactly the same way, from moment to moment. It is an impossibility. It […]
October 16, 2012
Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in […]
October 14, 2012
A role of beautiful Japanese paper, Shikoku natural paper, 10 meters by 38 inches–80 grams sits in a corner of my studio. Beautiful, beautiful paper. Along […]
October 7, 2012
Stare. Educate the eye. Die knowing something. You are not here long. WALKER EVANS Will […]
September 30, 2012
I spent the past weekend walking in the woods and revisiting my own writings about walking and wilderness (look for a post about that in the […]
September 23, 2012
Nearly 25 years ago I took my first class in ceramics. First beginning with hand-building and then moving to the wheel. I straddled the wheel, elbow […]
August 12, 2012
This phrase was said to me nearly 20 years ago during a silent retreat in Black Canyon City, Arizona at Our Lady of Solitude, an incredible […]
July 1, 2012
“The answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything is 42.” Some of you reading this blog will know the origins of that […]
May 20, 2012
My brother-in-law introduced me to Photosynth, a great app for the iphone that stitches images together as you take them. Really fun. I’ve been playing around […]
April 27, 2012
Patterns stop me, interrupt trains of thought, perfectly good runs, conversations and sometimes even presentations. Beautiful, graphic, repetition. Bold shapes repeated over and over and over […]
April 22, 2012
This cold rainy day, seasonable again after a stretch of warmth, fast-forwarding the spring season to fill my garden with gorgeous yellows and pinks and greens. […]
March 29, 2012
I should be content to look at a mountain for what it is and not as a comment on my life. […]
March 20, 2012
I want to live some place where calla lilies grow like weeds, on the side of the row, free for the picking. This particular lily is […]
February 14, 2012
Loving, being with the now, what IS, is my biggest challenge. Worry walks along side of me daily. It rarely leaves my side. As I get […]
January 16, 2012
Kitchen Brook Trail begins in my backyard, zigzags through the woods and connects with the Old Adams Road. The trail is fairly unofficial. It’s not on […]
March 6, 2011
A variable tree rubbing edition with rules: 1. Edition size: 36, the age I celebrated in 2005. 2. A card was created in every place I […]